Maternal cuddling during infancy can help today's children "resist" the temptation to use drugs and other addictive substances when they reach adulthood. This is what is deduced from a study carried out by Duke University (USA) and the University of Adelaide (Australia) and published in 'The Journal of Neuroscience'.
Who hasn't ever been frustrated having to talk to an answering machine? A new computer system is able to detect whether your interlocutor is bored or fed up, so that it can tailor its response to the person's mood.
A study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has identified new differences in the brains of psychopaths that could explain their antisocial behavior. Specifically, researchers have found that in these subjects there are fewer connections between neurons in the prefrontal ventromedial cortex, the part of the brain responsible for feelings such as empathy and guilt, and the amygdala, which regulates fear and anxiety.
Acute stress situations such as those that occur when watching a horror movie force the brain to reorganize itself and remind people of bad times, according to a new study by scientists from New York University (USA) and published in the journal Science .
A study from the University of California (USA) published in the journal Current Biology reveals that while we dream, our brain chemistry of stress is deactivated and the brain processes emotional experiences to "erase" painful or unpleasant emotions stored in memory. This is deduced in a series of experiments carried out using magnetic resonance imaging. According to the authors, the finding offers a new explanation for why we dream.
Why does the tendency to follow a healthy diet and to carry out adequate amounts of physical exercise tend to coexist in the same individual? It's not by chance. A new study published in the journal Obesity Review reveals why increased levels of physical activity are associated with improved quality of diet.
A person with normal reading ability can read a word incredibly fast, in less than a second. This is because on the first reading of a word, the brain encodes it visually and phonetically. But when the term is learned, it is recognized only visually, as if it were an object without a sound part.
The intelligence quotient (IQ), the standard that measures a person's intelligence, can increase or decrease during adolescence, according to a study by University College London published in the journal Nature. This is the first study to reveal that this value is not constant throughout life.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
